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Start your free trialHiroshi Kadokura
8,035 PointsI dont know how he did that...
In the video around 11:10 ... what and how did he do that?? I dont think he copied something and pasted it on line 31.
I need your help!!
3 Answers
Steve Hunter
57,712 PointsYes, unfortunately, this happens quite a lot in this course. The teacher pastes code into the app without providing the code below the video for us to do the same.
In this instance, he does go through the tests that he copied, and they are fairly straightforward.
Feel free to copy the code from my Github repo, here.
Steve.
John Simoneau
Courses Plus Student 8,105 PointsThat was an interesting approach...LOL. I don't think he was considering those of us following along typing the code with the video. I know you could download the course files but I was determined to do it the uselessly longer route by skipping around in the video on those spots and typing each line I could find as well as using my own logic based off the create_spec file we had already created. Anyways, the GitHub repo link works above as-does downloading the course files. But if anyone is looking to be lazier the following a couple links here is what I came up with and works. I'm 99% sure it's what the instructor has as well.
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Editing todo lists" do
let!(:todo_list) { TodoList.create(title: "Groceries", description: "Grocery list.") }
def update_todo_list(options={})
options[:title] ||= "My todo list"
options[:description] ||= "This is my todo list."
todo_list = options[:todo_list]
visit "/todo_lists"
within "#todo_list_#{todo_list.id}" do
click_link "Edit"
end
fill_in "Title", with: options[:title]
fill_in "Description", with: options[:description]
click_button "Update Todo list"
end
it "updates a todo list successfully with correct information" do
update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list,
title: "New title",
description: "New description"
todo_list.reload
expect(page).to have_content("Todo list was successfully updated.")
expect(todo_list.title).to eq("New title")
expect(todo_list.description).to eq("New description")
end
it "displays an error with no title" do
update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list, title: ""
title = todo_list.title
todo_list.reload
expect(todo_list.title).to eq(title)
expect(page).to have_content("error")
end
it "displays an error too short of a title" do
update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list, title: "hi"
expect(page).to have_content("error")
end
it "displays an error with no description" do
update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list, description: ""
expect(page).to have_content("error")
end
it "displays an error too short of a description" do
update_todo_list todo_list: todo_list, description: "hi"
expect(page).to have_content("error")
end
end
Jack McDowell
37,797 PointsThanks to both of you. Seriously though, this course could have easily been broken up into 3 or 4 parts. There are moments like these when there wasn't even enough time to pause the video and write the code!
Hoppy Toad
5,773 PointsEveryone who is annoyed by the lack of explanation of where that large block of code came from should click "give feedback" at the end of the video and give it a low rating. Be sure to explain why.
David Richied
18,057 PointsI agree. The instructor may have just been given an almost impossible task and made the best of it with this course. I am considering taking his other eight-hour course called Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application instead of this course and see if it's better paced. I suppose they thought the Rails Development track was long enough (53 hours) and just wanted to put in a shorter course.
Hiroshi Kadokura
8,035 PointsHiroshi Kadokura
8,035 PointsThank you so much!! Yes, the code did work !!